Our second Christmas party we hosted at our house and invited 7 of our neighbor friends with kids. I was nervous because we were told everyone would accept your invitation in front of your face to be polite, but you didn’t really know if they would come! So I didn’t really know how much to prepare. . . but again, going in faith we prepared for everyone 6 out of the 7 families came! They even came on time!! (which was another thing you never can be sure about).

The kids came and we played some games, then we did a Christmas craft, decorated cookies (hello icing!! They loved it!), then we shared a short cartoon video of the Real Christmas Story. Most of the kids were between 4-7 yrs old (except for my younger ones and 1 other baby), and they listened so well! They answered all the questions I asked at the end too! Only 1 child had heard the story before . . . which is really sad. But the good news is that her family are already His children too! So that was really neat!

Then we did another nativity craft after the story and played for a bit It went WAY smoother than I anticipated and we all had a lot of fun! Relationships were deepened and the Christmas Story was shared!

Christmas Party 3 was at a friend’s house. . .we just helped a bit, they did pretty much all of the work. It was all adults, so a friend came and kept our kids. We invited Lulu and Echo They had some fun games, Christmas carols, and we all read the Christmas Story!

Seriously, Christmas is such a great opportunity to share! Being here it’s the only thing on our minds. . . wish I would’ve taken more opportunities back in the States where I spoke the language and had no “rules” about it Looking back, I don’t know what I thought was hard about it. . . What’s wrong with that picture?